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The language makes me think of Shadesmar, but knowing that's possible for Jasnah and Shallan to go for an emergency swim, that's also likely. Eshonai embracing a stormform, while possible, just doesn't strike me as likely.

See, at this point I am not even sure if Peter knows what that line is, off the top of his head. It strikes me as very likely that he is doing purely for our torture. Of course, there is one way I could be proven wrong...

Well, there is that too...

I wasn't this hyped up about AMoL, and that was the last one in the series, not the second one...

Soft magic looking like hard magic is still hard in my book, just not as something like Allomancy.

On the understanding of hard vs soft magic, it depends. Jim Butcher's wizards do magic by imagining a thing and making said thing real by pouring magic energy into it with their will. You could argue that this is soft magic (and in some ways it is), but it has hard rules and has to obey physics. +1 for Elminster.

"So I tried this new drug, and it's WAY better than the previous one" is all I am reading here. That and a lot of "GIMMIE"

Always happy to see a new fan to join the family, especially one as enthusiastic as you. Keep that, the world has plenty serious and boring people.

A scene more... emotional than the Red Wedding? Oh, dear. Do me a favor. Or a curse. PM me the ketek the 5 books make. I need my SA fix and Tor is an evil dealer.

I am considering not taking a couple of days off work then... I kind of want to devour the book, but I also want to savor it.

This is made of the truthness.

Sas morom is a glyphpair Kaladin recognizes as "the highlord's district where the man was originally branded" when he is being driven to the Shattered Plains for the first time.

A (sadly) fair point. It is common knowledge - well, lore / legend, really - that the Radiants of old could fly. The topic must have come up around Lopen, and so he has made this comment.

I started with Eccleston (#9) and was fine. I didn't feel like I had missed anything major - or, at least, the big missing things were mentioned in a way that made their omission feel like worldbuilding and mystery, instead of the feeling of being left out.

I was going to go all Wiki on your faces, but now I feel underqualified* for this conversation... * Why does Chrome correctly recognize overqualified as a word, but not underqualified?

Hell is a place where all the writers die after they get about halfway through every one of their series, and standalone books are not published.

Probably Ars Arcana, actually. Datum -> Data. Arcanum - Arcana. And I wouldn't bet on them being written for Hoid. Remember, the 17S is trying to essentially hunt him down - probably with the intention of containment, not murder, but still. No, I see the association as trying to understand the Cosmere, and maybe do something with that understanding (be it to change it in some way, or preserve it as it is; and Hoid's plans are running contrary to theirs). So the Arcana are, really, software documentation.

Ooooo, you guys hear that? No? It's the sound of the plot thickening. We have a member of the Seventeenth Shard in the Alethi warcamps. It's possible that Hoid has returned, but I have a feeling that this is not about him (it's more likely that a 17S member will create this for another member instead of the the #1 most wanted by their association).

Huh, in what way? Those are obviously in-world artifacts, created by people from Roshar for people in Roshar.

Tor continues the hype campaign for Words of Radiance, and the latest installment features two pieces of the book's interior art: #1: Santhid. A sketch Shallan made after the events of Chapter 1: Santhid. The sketch was previously released in the Steelhunt section of Brandon's site (in higher resolution), but is now available to everyone. #2: Tattoos. An explanation by somebody called Nazh (a woman and/or an ardent, in all likelihood, since (s)he can write) of Bridge 4's tattoos. It includes designs for: Kaladin's sas, nahn, and shash brand glyphs Bridge 4's uniform insignia (which you can buy a decal of in Brandon's store) The "freed by Dalinar Kholin" tattoo all members of the former bridge crews got. It includes the glyphs for freedom, Bridge 4, Kholin, and Tanat. There isn't much to comment on the santhid (other than to reiterate how cool Roshar is), but the tattoos are interesting. First, let say that reading in Roshar is hard! And second, the Stormlight Archive fandom is going to be making its own glyphs before too long. And it will be the best fandom ever. We should start pestering Brandon & co. to gives us some guidelines, if there are any. Or sample glyphs. Or anything! Also, this Nazh person. She (I will assume it's a she) made this document for a friend of hers who was specifically interested in the bridgemen's tattoos, and apparently Kaladin's brands. I'd be very interested to find out who that person is, because somebody witty comes to mind... Or, you know, someone Amaramy, but that's much less likely. All in all, this is some pretty stormin' cool stuff guys!

Hmm. No, I think I'll wait to get the paper copy on Tuesday (morning). And exercise in will.

Ebooks open up on Monday midnight?

Writing class? I've met him... thrice I think. One AMoL signing and two Steelheart ones. Not sure what happened with TWoK. Fun lad. Looks like he could be my dad. More than my own dad does.

Because Shallan strikes you as obedient?

Re: cheekbones and ethnicity Turns out the video I was going to show you, @ExMachina, is now private - along with all the other videos from that channel. I've messaged the channel's owner, as it is possible that there was some YouTube mix-up, but if that's not the case, you might end up having to do your own research on the topic...